Status | Confirmed |
Seminar Series | MATH-IHES |
Subjects | hep-th |
Date | Thursday 30 March 2017 |
Time | 11:00 |
Institute | IHES |
Seminar Room | Amphithéâtre Léon Motchane |
Speaker's Last Name | Goldstein |
Speaker's First Name | Raymond E. |
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Speaker's Institution | University of Cambridge & IHES |
Title | Upside Down and Inside Out: The Biomechanics of Cell Sheet Folding |
Abstract | Deformations of cell sheets are ubiquitous in early animal development, often arising from a complex and poorly understood interplay of cell shape changes, division, and migration. In this talk I will describe an approach to understanding such problems based on perhaps the simplest example of cell sheet folding: the inversion process of the algal genus Volvox, during which spherical embryos literally turn themselves inside out through a process hypothesized to arise from cell shape changes alone. Through a combination of light sheet microscopy and elasticity theory a quantitative understanding of this process is now emerging. |
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